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Date:      Fri, 27 Mar 1998 13:36:45 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
To:        "Larry S. Marso" <larry@marso.com>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Jazz Drive, removing read-only
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.95.980327133509.26251B-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980327064915.02355@marso.com>

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I have posted this answer several times, it is in the archives.

IN any case, just slap the disk in your drive, and run scsiformat -w
on it and low level format it.  That will wipe out whatever it
is on there that makes it look R/O.

There may be a simpler solution, but sometimes a sledgehammer is easiest.

On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Larry S. Marso wrote:

> I've spent a while slogging through all the Jazz related articles in the      
> FreeBSD archives, and some linux sites.                                         
>      
> I seem to have gotten as far as many writers, as my boot-up messages below      
> demonstrate.  The remaining problem is, I believe, how to remove the  
> "read only " protection built into the bundled jazz disk.  [How to handle       
> other issues is well documented].                                              
>      
> The linux people have their own tool that does this, and other aspects         
> of installation, called jaZip.  see                                        
> http://www.scripps.edu/~jsmith/jazip/jaZip-FAQ.html                  
>      
> Who has a solution for FreeBSD?  I saw a reference to a "jazcntrl" authored
> by Dirk.vanGulik@jrc.it (I've written him), which was apparently in    
> freebsd/incoming about one year ago.  Anyone know where to find it?             
>      
> Best regards                                                                  
> --                                                                            
> Larry S. Marso                                                        
> larry@marso.com
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